Christ Is Not Gone - Ephesians 4:7-16 - Ascension of Our Lord - May 12, 2024

12/05/2024 16 min
Christ Is Not Gone - Ephesians 4:7-16 - Ascension of Our Lord - May 12, 2024

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Send us a textThanks for joining us today! Happy Mother's Day! As we mature as adults, our need for our mother changes and diminishes in some ways. Is the same true for our faith? Do we need God less as we become more mature? Listen in to find out! God bless to you today and always! If you're local, come on by! We'd love to meet you. We're located at 3800 Hondo Pass, El Paso, TX 79904. Find out more about us online:trinityelpaso.orgFB @trinitylutheranelpasoIG @trinitylutheraneptxAnd look for our sermon videos on YouTube!  7 But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8 This is why it says:“When he ascended on high,    he took many captives    and gave gifts to his people.”9 (What does “he ascended” mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? 10 He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) 11 So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, 12 to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13 until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

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